Boba Fett

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Boba Fett
Biographical information
Homeworld	Mandalore (adopted)
Born	Kamino[1] 31.5 BBY (3)[2]
Physical description
Species	Human[1] (clone)
Gender	Male[1]
Height	1.83 meters[3]
Hair color	Black[1]
Eye color	Brown[1]
Chronological and political information
Era(s)	Rise of the Empire era Rebellion era New Republic era New Jedi Order era Legacy era
Affiliation	Confederacy of Independent Systems Bounty hunter Galactic Empire Mandalorian Protectors Yuuzhan Vong Galactic Federation of Free Alliances

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Boba Fett was a Mandalorian warrior and bounty hunter. He was a clone of the famed Jango Fett, created in 32 BBY as the first of many Fett replicas designed to become part of the Grand Army of the Republic, and was raised as Jango's son. Jango taught Boba much, training the latter to become a skilled bounty hunter as his father-figure was before him. In 22 BBY, Jango was killed at the Battle of Geonosis, which opened the Clone Wars.

Just a boy, Fett was forced to grow up. He took assignments from beings such as Jabba the Hutt, and achieved notoriety despite his young age. When the Empire was formed in 19 BBY, it was the perfect environment for Fett. He became known as the galaxy's best bounty hunter of the next several decades, often working for the Empire. Fett collaborated with Darth Vader on several occasions, and the Sith even developed a begrudging respect for the bounty hunter.

Fett made his most notable bounty in 3 ABY, when he captured Rebel Alliance hero Han Solo, and brought him to Jabba. A year later, during the Skirmish at Carkoon, Fett fought against the group of Rebels. However, he was knocked into the mouth of the sarlacc by Solo. Though no one in recorded history had ever escaped from the sarlacc, Fett was able to escape, although not entirely unscathed. Thanks to his iron will and Mandalorian armor, he was able to fight his way out of the beast's belly. Back in action, he continued his work as a bounty hunter. He had a wife named Sintas Vel, a daughter named Ailyn Vel, and a granddaughter Mirta Gev. After a promise made to a dying Fenn Shysa, Fett became Mandalore and eventually led the Mandalorians through the Yuuzhan Vong war. He later helped strengthen the people and the planet of Mandalore after the discovery of a large deposit of Mandalorian iron, which was ironically unearthed during the war by the Yuuzhan Vong's bombardment of the surface. Later, Fett trained Jaina Solo to kill her brother, Darth Caedus.

Biography

Early years (32–19 BBY)

A young Fett on Kamino.

Childhood

Boba was created by Kaminoans as an unaltered clone, at the request of his "father," Jango Fett, before the start of the Clone Wars. He was intended to be both Jango's heir and "Jaster's legacy." As a young boy, Fett grew up on the planet Kamino. Jango raised and cared for him with the assistance of the Kaminoan, Taun We, who ultimately took on the role of being a foster mother to him. Fett was aware of the fact that he was a clone of his father, however, he would often question his conception. Jango assured his son that he was a "true clone" and his real son. Along with the Clawdite Zam Wesell, Taun We was the sole female influence in the young Fett's life.

A young Boba with his "father", Jango.

As a child Boba never attended school; instead he gained much knowledge from his travels with his father and the books he borrowed from the local library. Boba was very fond of books, especially those about starfighters, which he often borrowed and read from the library of Tipoca City. Sometime before the Clone Wars, Boba met Sith Lord Count Dooku, who had hired his father to take up bounties that would be beneficial to him and his master in the events that followed. On one such mission Boba accompanied Jango to the planet of Kuat, where Jango used the boy as bait to lure his bounty into the open. Afraid, the young Fett threw a thermal detonator and fled into the tents. Once he located the boy, the colonist was horrified to learn the young boy was the son of the man sent to kill him. Jango, having finished assassinating the remaining members of the camp, tracked down Boba and demanded that Larbo release his son, slashing his way through the tent's canopy. Disgusted, Larbo asked what kind of man would use his own son as bait, and Boba replied, "Only a son can know his father's heart". After killing his bounty, Boba escaped with his father on their ship and informed the Count of their successful mission. Boba would often accompany his father to the training sessions with the other clones where he taught them basic combat skills.

Clone Wars

The chance to see Obi-Wan Kenobi's Delta-7 was a relished opportunity considering his love for vehicles. Boba was roughly ten years old when Jedi Knight Obi-Wan Kenobi came to Kamino to investigate the mysterious creation of a clone army for the Republic. Fett's father, Jango, realized that he and his son would have to leave Kamino before the Jedi unraveled the mystery behind the attacks on Senator Padmé Amidala. After Jango and Obi-Wan fought, Jango and Boba blasted off the planet in their ship, Slave I.

A young Fett ponders his own life after his father's death at Geonosis.

En route to Geonosis, they realized that Kenobi had tracked them. Boba encouraged and intently watched his father attempt to escape the Jedi. He eventually watched what they thought was the death of Kenobi, although Kenobi had actually attached himself to a nearby asteroid. As the Battle of Geonosis started, Boba stood with Jango on the platform in the arena with several Separatist leaders, including Count Dooku, Viceroy Nute Gunray, and Archduke Poggle the Lesser. When Jedi Master Mace Windu arrived, Jango kept Boba from harm as the Jedi task force attempted to rescue the captive Obi-Wan, Anakin Skywalker, and Padmé Amidala. During the battle, Boba watched his father get trampled by a reek, and, as a result, eventually beheaded by Mace Windu when Jango attempted to challenge him. While the Grand Army of the Republic and the Separatist Droid Army clashed for the very first time, Boba emerged from his hiding place to pick up his father's helmet. Boba swore revenge on Mace Windu, for this reason.

Post-Battle of Geonosis

After Geonosis, Boba buried his father and tried to escape. All he had left of his father was his armor and a "book" that Jango left to help instruct him, in the event of his death. Fett attempted to return to Kamino but it was to no avail as he realized no place was safe for him now that his father was dead. Aurra Sing gave Fett to Darth Tyranus, who gave Sing Slave I as payment (Boba eventually recovered the ship). He was taken to Raxus Prime to meet with Tyranus, who was then searching for the Force Harvester. The Sith Lord attempted to detain his young charge, but a Republic attack allowed Fett to escape.

Boba was taken by clone troopers and sent to an orphanage on Bespin. He managed to escape with Sing, who had come searching for the boy, in order to gain access to Jango Fett's rather large bank account on Aargau.

On Aargau, Fett lost 500,000 credits of his father's money due to the betrayal of a Clawdite named Nuri, but received the rest. Jango's "book" told Fett to visit Jabba the Hutt, but Fett had a run-in with the dangerous Separatist Commander Durge. The Gen'Dai's hatred of all Mandalorians caused him to attack the young Fett. While on Aargau, Boba managed to elude Aurra Sing after she failed to steal Jango's credits.

Bounty hunter

A young Boba Fett, donning his father's re-sized armor during the Clone Wars.

Constantly on the run, Fett managed to secure a minor bounty on an assassin before reaching safety. With nowhere left to go, young Boba found himself in the custody of Jabba the Hutt. One of the reasons Jabba accepted Boba was to repay the favor Jango Fett did him by killing Gardulla the Hutt a decade earlier. While working for Jabba the Hutt, Boba had befriended one of Jabba's cooks, Gab'borah, and his daughter, Ygabba (whom he had rescued earlier, after first arriving on Tatooine).

In gratitude, the two had Jango Fett's body armor re-sized to fit the young Boba's frame. This couldn't have come at a better time, since Jabba was about to give him his first off-world assignment. His first major hunt off-planet was after Techno Union Foreman Wat Tambor, who had a base on Xagobah. The planet was under assault by the Grand Army of the Republic, so Fett encountered difficulties sneaking past both attack forces. He managed to get inside the base and escaped Nuri by forcing him into a clump of poisonous xabar fungus, which carries a toxin that causes temporary paralysis. However, the arrival of General Grievous foiled his plans, as Fett proved no match for the Kaleesh warrior. Young Fett only survived because he faked his own death. Both Wat Tambor and General Grievous escaped.

Boba Fett tried to give pursuit in Slave I, but the ship was damaged in a dogfight with Asajj Ventress. Slave I was actually saved from destruction because of the intervention of a young Jedi Knight named Anakin Skywalker, who drove off Ventress. After forcing Slave I to land on a nearby moon, Skywalker and Fett met for the first time. Skywalker, knowing that Fett was obviously not a Separatist, assisted Boba in repairing his ship. During this time, Boba repainted his armor, which was identical to Jango Fett's, into the green color scheme that he is most identified with, thus making it his own. Even though Skywalker had helped him repair his ship, he was intent on taking Fett in for violating air space in a Republic controlled military zone. Boba convinced Skywalker, however, that he had information vital to the Republic's survival; information he would only tell the Supreme Chancellor. The information Boba had was knowledge that Count Dooku and Darth Tyranus were one and the same person. He would trade this information in order to get close to the one person he hated the most—the Jedi who had killed his father on Geonosis: Mace Windu.

Boba Fett, age twelve, in 19 BBY, shortly after repainting his armor.

After being escorted to Coruscant by Governor Tarkin, Boba finally acquired his one and only chance at Mace Windu. Boba followed and waited for the Jedi in the Supreme Chancellor's chambers, of all places. Boba engaged Mace Windu in combat but could not kill the Jedi Master. The two stood, battered and wounded, each ready to deliver a final blow with their weapons. The fight was actually halted by Supreme Chancellor Palpatine, before either one could make a move. Boba was surprised to learn that the Chancellor already knew that Dooku was Tyranus. He also knew that Boba would hunt down Mace Windu, once he arrived on Coruscant. "I believe we share a common enemy," the Chancellor told Fett. Palpatine paid Fett for his information and told him never to speak of their conversation again, an agreement that Boba wisely kept. Then the Chancellor sent him on his way.

By the end of the Clone Wars, Boba Fett had reached the age of thirteen—the traditional start of adulthood in Mandalorian culture. Fett was now a fully-fledged bounty hunter.

Early Imperial era (19–0 BBY)

For years to come, Fett's reputation grew among bounty hunters and assassins. Boba continued to acquire and upgrade pieces of Mandalorian armor. It is said he had at least three complete sets of armor from which to use, one of which was mostly left in the Sarlacc pit. Eventually he found the Mandalorian armor of Jango's old mentor and leader, Jaster Mereel. Along with his new green and red armor, he had honed his skills as an assassin and mercenary, which would one day make him the most feared and sinister bounty hunter in the Galaxy.

For a time Fett worked for Malorum, a vicious Imperial Grand Inquisitor, operating on far flung worlds such as Polis Massa, Naboo, and Bellassa. He employed young Fett to search for information about the late Padmé Amidala. On this mission Boba had to work with fellow bounty hunter D'harhan. With D'harhan's help, Fett tracked the Jedi to Bellassa where they stopped a Rebel uprising on the planet. At the Red Twins, Fett battled the fugitive Jedi Obi-Wan Kenobi and Ferus Olin, forcing them out of the system before crash-landing Slave I in a nearby nebula.

Young family

A holographic image of Boba with Sintas Vel and their baby daughter Ailyn Vel.

At some point before 16 BBY, Boba met Sintas Vel, a Kiffar bounty hunter. In an attempt at a normal life, he married her. The two later conceived a child, Ailyn Vel, who was born in 15 BBY. Fett's job allowed for few attachments, however, and the relationship was strained despite the love between Boba and Sintas. For work, Fett, under the alias of Jaster Mereel, also became a Journeyman Protector on Concord Dawn, as his grandfather had once been. However, the title of Protector was stripped from him after he killed a superior officer for raping Sintas. He was jailed, then forced to leave the planet in exile. This, coupled with previous strain on the relationship, resulted in the divorce of Fett and Sintas and the severing of all contact from Fett with his family. Having failed in his attempts to be a regular man, Boba Fett once again fully dedicated himself to the bounty hunting trade. The abandonment of his family caused Ailyn to hate her father. Ailyn eventually took her father's identity and spent her entire life hunting him down.

Some time later, Fett and his wife met once more when a box containing flatpix of Fett, Sintas, and Ailyn, was stolen to lure Boba into a deadly trap. Boba defeated his would-be captor as well as his former flame, but allowed her to keep the box instead of destroying it as he had originally planned. His departing words to Sintas were that her wounds would heal over time, but his own wounds did not, as he revealed 50 years later.

Legendary exploits

Fett being contracted by Sise Fromm.

In 15 BBY, Sise Fromm hired Boba Fett to eliminate the racing team of Jord Dusat and Thall Joben as they prepared their modified landspeeder, the White Witch, for the Boonta Speeder Race. At the time, Fett owned a droid named BL-17, and used him to sow confusion among Joben's droids, R2-D2 and C-3PO. Failing to sabotage their racer before the race began, Fett entered the race in his own craft, the Silver Speeder, unaware of a bomb planted on Joben's speeder. Fett harassed Thall throughout the event until one of his own weapons backfired on him, knocking him out of the race and allowing Thall to win. An unhappy Boba Fett decided to turn Sise Fromm over to Jabba the Hutt for the bounty that the Hutt crime lord had placed on his rival.

After working for Jabba, Fett worked for Darth Vader on numerous occasions. Three years later after the Boonta incident, in 12 BBY, Fett returned to Kamino, where he led a special detachment of the 501st Legion on a successful mission to eliminate a group of clones bred to fight against the Empire. Fett was selected to lead this mission due to his intimate experience with the Kaminoans and his knowledge of Tipoca City.

Imperial records showed that Fett had served as a stormtrooper, but deserted after he killed his commanding officer.

In the decades between the Clone Wars and the Galactic Civil War, other unsubstantiated rumors of Fett's exploits prevailed. One such rumor claimed he was the Mandalorian Jaster Mereel, who had been Jango's mentor. This most likely stemmed from the fact that both men had served as Journeyman Protectors on Concord Dawn. Boba himself, however, never did anything to dissuade these rumors. In fact, he sometimes encouraged them, as they hid his true origins, and added to his mystique.

In 12 BBY, while hunting the spice trafficker Hallolar Voors on Jabba's behalf, Fett saw Han Solo for the first time on the world of Jubilar. Fett noted that the young man was full of promise.^[4]

Later, in 5 BBY, Boba captured Solo, who had earned the wrath of the Besadii Hutts. However, he was interrupted by Han's soon to be good friend, Lando Calrissian. While Fett was busy with Solo, Lando sneaked up on the bounty hunter and jammed a blaster into his neck. Unable to resist, Boba Fett was humiliated when Lando injected the same toxin he had used on Solo, one which forced its victim to do whatever he was ordered. They ordered Boba Fett to leave entirely. Once the effects of the toxin wore off, Fett would swear revenge against Han and Lando, for very few people outsmarted him and lived to tell the tale. It was the beginning of a long rivalry.^[5]

Many times Fett was sent to capture Solo, but due to continual bad luck and interference, Fett failed to apprehend his quarry time and time again. Once Solo became the favored smuggler of Jabba the Hutt, Fett's longtime employer paid the hunter to not kill Han Solo. Fett accepted Jabba's money, but intended to kill Solo when he got the chance and refund the Hutt later.^[5]

In 4 BBY, Fett took the bounty offered by the Hutts for the capture of the rebel, Bria Tharen. However, her frequent deep-cover assignments, together with the high security at rebel installations made her very difficult to get close to. After a year of on-off searching, Fett caught up with her on the Outer Rim planet Teth where Bria was meeting with the Tethan resistance leaders, Commander Winfrid Dagore and Lieutenant Palob Godalhi. The bounty specified that Bria should be captured alive, making it impossible for Fett to fulfill his mission while she was in the rebel base. As a result Fett had no choice but to give up the bounty.^[6]

Fett, facing off against Darth Vader on Maryx Minor.

Later, Darth Vader hired Fett to capture an Imperial named Abal Karda and, more importantly, the box he would be found carrying. Upon learning what the box contained—directly violating Vader's instructions—Fett contemplated keeping it for himself. Unbeknownst to Boba, Vader had a group of Imperial criminals. He eventually discovered them, killing all of them in a confrontation. Fett tracked Karda all the way to Maryx Minor, where he was hiding among the Ancient Order of Pessimists, and killed him. However, Vader had followed Fett to Maryx Minor and the two engaged in battle over control of the box. Unable to break through the Dark Lord's defense, Fett quickly found himself forced to the edge of a cliff that hung over a molten pit, apparently at Vader's mercy. Not willing to risk damaging the casket, Vader tried to force Fett to relinquish it by turning his mental powers against the bounty hunter, yet Fett's strength of will allowed him to resist the Sith's suggestions long enough to throw himself from the cliff... apparently to his death. Shocked by this turn of events, and horrified at the thought of having lost his prize, Vader peered over the edge only to find Fett's blaster waiting for him. Shooting Vader square in the forehead and knocking the Sith Lord to his back, Fett returned to solid ground and declared himself the victor of their conflict. Vader congratulated the bounty hunter, then promptly turned the Force against him. Stripped of his blaster, forced to his knees and his arms pinned to his side by the Force, Fett looked certain to meet his end, yet – surprising the Sith Lord again – he kicked the box Vader desired over the cliff edge. Infuriated, Vader released his grip on Fett and went for the box, getting a telekinetic hold on it narrowly before it was destroyed. With Vader's back to him, concentration focused on retrieving the casket, Fett weighed up the benefits of taking advantage of this opening and killing the Dark Lord of the Sith. He quickly decided against such a course of action however, believing that, if taken, the Empire would trouble him to no end. He thus fled the scene of the battle, stealing Vader's landspeeder, and left Maryx Minor behind him.^[7]

In 1 BBY, Fett was on Dargulli, where he met some other bounty hunters, like Ganji. There, Boba heard that Darth Vader was fighting alone against many bounty hunters. While everybody tried to kill Vader, Fett sided with him and helped the Dark Lord of the Sith, firing at everyone around Vader.^[8]

During the Battle of Thyferra, in which pirate codes were found on Rebel weaponry, Fett was recruited by Darth Vader to eliminate pirate defenses over Ilum to allow Imperial reinforcements to move in to flush out the leader.^[9]

Following another lead, Fett was able to track his bounty Bria Tharen to the starship Queen of Empire. Boba quickly killed Bria's guards and was able to drug her. Fett also captured Lando when he arrived shortly afterwards. When Bria woke up, she asked Fett if he would let her father know that she was dead so he wouldn't have to find out when her next message failed to arrive. To her surprise, the bounty hunter agreed to the request. Before Fett could take his prize back to Slave I, Queen of Empire was pulled out of hyperspace by a pirate raid led by Lando's ex-girlfriend, Drea Renthal. Cornered by Renthal's pirates, Fett realized he could not fight his way out without getting his bounties killed and agreed to release Lando to her if she let him go. Lando, however, refused to leave Bria to Fett and pointed out that Drea owed Han a favor. Drea offered to pay Fett the 100,000 credit bounty to let Bria go. Knowing this was the only way he could make a profit, Fett reluctantly agreed.^[6]

Fett faces off against Darth Vader on Tatooine.

In 1 BBY, Fett was hired by Grand Moff Tarkin to bring in Solo, who had deserted from the Imperial Navy long ago. While Fett tracked Han Solo from Hoth to Tatooine, Vader, also in pursuit of Solo, was not far behind. Fett eventually located Solo in a cantina and placed a trap near the back entrance. As Fett waited for his prey to enter the trap, Vader appeared and attempted to take Solo by force. Fett, not wanting the bounty taken from him, engaged Vader in battle as Solo tried to escape out the back. Solo ran into Fett's trap, a stasis-field, which immobilized him. Vader took the upper-hand in battle until Fett made an unexpected move, unleashing a lightsaber of his own. The two clashed briefly, and though Vader's skills with the lightsaber greatly out-matched Fett's, Boba's brute force, ferocity, and pure determination allowed him to hold his own. In the fray, the stasis-field was damaged and Solo escaped. Vader, more interested in catching Solo, removed himself from the fight and took Fett's lightsaber with him, though Fett would lose Solo's bounty. Angered, Fett declared that he would find Solo, wherever he hid.

Boba worked for Jabba again when a wager between the crimelord and two other rival Hutts resulted in each sending a team to hunt for the Yavin Vassilika, a priceless statuette believed to be little more than legend. Jabba's team consisted Solo, Chewbacca, Lando Calrissian, and a badly out-of-his-depth Greedo, battling Bossk, Dengar, IG-88B, Zuckuss, and Malta. Unbeknownst to all, Fett had actually been hired to make sure Jabba's team won and retrieved the artifact, rescuing Solo's team from the natives who worshiped the idol. The Vassilika was snatched by Malta's assistant, Jozzel Moffet, who was acting on the behalf of the Rebel Alliance and Bria Tharen. Fett stopped the Rebels from fleeing, where they explained they had already given the money to Moffet. Later, Fett tracked down Embra the Hutt's assistant Farquil (who had stolen the money) and claimed his reward money for Jabba, presumably killing or otherwise neutralizing Farquil.^[10]

The young Havet Storm ran afoul of Boba Fett soon after, on Toprawa, when Storm inadvertently humiliated the hunter in a local cantina.^[11]

Fett also learned that Bria Tharen had been killed in a battle on Toprawa. He tracked Solo to Tatooine, but not to capture him. Keeping his word to Bria, Fett asked Solo to pass on the word of Bria's death to her father.^[6] Fett then joined Jabba's forces again and was present when the Hutt confronted Solo in Docking Bay 94.

Early Galactic Civil War (0 BBY–4 ABY)

Boba Fett in Docking Bay 94 after joining Jabba the Hutt at a meeting with Han Solo.

Following the Death Star's destruction at the hands of the Rebel Alliance, Fett ventured off onto the planet of Solem where he took a job from Imperial Governor Malvander Bren to capture the Governor's own brother who was leading a Rebel cell on the planet. Fett tracked down the brother through the Rebels he led, killing or torturing several of them to get the information he wanted. He soon found a piece of writing which, after he had another translate the code it was written in, led him to a shoemaker named Rabutz in G'ai Solem. Though Rabutz and several other Rebels fled, Fett managed to track them and they led him straight to Bren, his target. Though the Rebels offered to fight off Fett, Bren freely handed himself over to Fett and returned with him to his brothers palace. When Malvander saw that Fett had completed his task, he offered to pay him 10,000 of the 50,000 credits he was due to pay, as the Empire had refused to fund any more of his personal campaign. When Fett refused this offer, Malvander threatened to set his palace guards on him; Fett quickly disarmed all three of them with shots to the arm. Fett then walked over to Malvander and took his expensive necklace right from his throat, a piece of jewelry which was worth well over the 50,000 credits. Several Rebels soon arrived in the palace and, though Malvander ordered Fett to take care of them to cover the added price of the necklace, Fett simply left the palace and the planet itself.

Around 0 ABY, the Empire employed Fett to find where the Rebels were hiding after they had escaped Yavin IV. Both the Empire and the Alliance had been searching for a holocron made by Bail Organa. The holocron, made of phrik, had survived the destruction of Alderaan and had a list of possible bases for the Alliance. During an engagement with Imperial forces, Solo had captured it on the Falcon. Fett, seeing his bounty and rival slipping away from him, engaged the Rebel forces in his ship, but after encountering fierce resistance from the elite Renegade Squadron, Fett was forced to flee. The bounty hunter gained his revenge, however, when he captured Admiral Ackbar and his crew while the Rebel commander was on a scouting mission. Fett handed over Ackbar to the Imperials but kept his crew and droids and sold them to the Hutt cartel on Tatooine. Fett slipped a tracking device into one of the R2 units, and when Renegade Squadron rescued the prisoners, Fett merely followed the Rebels back to their new base on Boz Pity and then alerted the Empire to their location. Meanwhile, on his way back to the Rebel base, Solo contracted a sleeping virus. This caused him to lose control of his prized ship, Millennium Falcon, and crash-land on the water moon of Panna.

Luke Skywalker arrived on Panna just as Boba Fett arrived riding a creature. It was then that he witnessed this creature attacking Luke's downed BTL Y-wing starfighter. Stopping the creature, Boba introduced himself, and, in an effort to find information about the Rebels from Luke, befriended him and led him to the downed Falcon. Promising to get an antidote, Boba Fett traveled with Chewbacca to a nearby spaceport and sent a transmission to Darth Vader, which was inadvertently intercepted by R2-D2. Upon returning to Millennium Falcon with the antidote and the intention of capturing Skywalker and Solo, C-3PO alerted Luke of Boba's involvement with Darth Vader (referring to him as Darth Vader's right hand man). Boba quickly used his jet pack to escape through the top hatch of the Falcon, knowing that if he killed Luke, Han, and Chewbacca, neither he nor his employer would ever be able to get the information they sought in the future. It was then they understood that this entire run-in with Boba was merely an Imperial plot. Fett had apparently been the one who allowed the talisman on the ship, as he knew of the sleeping virus that would affect Solo. The plan had been to use this to his advantage, so that (through a false friendship) he could learn the location of the hidden base.^[12]

Bounty Hunter's Guild

Boba Fett upon confronting Luke Skywalker on Panna.

Boba Fett was often employed by the Imperials as a bounty hunter, and chose not to belong to the Bounty Hunters Guild. If anything, he felt contempt for their rules and the needs that had brought them together. Boba Fett accepted a commission to infiltrate the Guild and destroy it. He had beaten two Guild members, Bossk—an old rival—and Zuckuss, to a bounty. When Boba delivered his quarry to his contact, Kud'ar Mub'at, he was offered the job. He accepted, though he did not know then who was behind the contract. He went to the Guild station under the pretense of joining. The head of the Guild, Bossk's father, Cradossk, welcomed him, but the younger hunters were greatly displeased with his decision to join.

Once part of the Guild, Boba assembled a team of hunters, including his old friend, the cyborg D'harhan, to go after Oph Nar Dinnid. The Lyunesi had a huge bounty on his head. The trail led to a clan of Shell Hutts for whom Dinnid hoped to work—but by the time Boba got there, one of the Hutts had killed Dinnid in a fit of rage. In the bloodshed that inevitably followed, D'harhan was killed. Zuckuss reported that Bossk had also been killed. Cradossk was pleased. He had been about to initiate a purge anyway. However, Bossk appeared and tore his hapless father apart. The result was exactly what Fett had been employed to engineer. The Guild was split in two along age lines.

Despite their long-standing rivalry, Fett and Bossk teamed up to trap Trhin Voss'on't—a renegade Imperial stormtrooper who had killed his crew and absconded with secret encryption codes—by making it look as if Bossk had managed to kill both Zuckuss and Fett, and now wanted to team up with Voss'on't. This scheme worked up to a point, but Voss'on't eventually caught on. Boba and Bossk managed to capture him, but he triggered an earthquake device and injured both hunters severely.

A resentful Bossk tried to take revenge on Fett for his part in the Guild's destruction, but Boba, aided by Zuckuss, got the drop on him. The alliance with Zuckuss was a brief one, for Boba, still under the employ of Mub'at, turned the tables on both of them. They barely made it out of Slave I alive.

Boba took Voss'on't to Mub'at's web, chased the whole way by the renegade Imperial's men. Boba ignored them, but when he dropped out of hyperspace, Slave I was immediately attacked. Faced with two alternatives—flee or fight his attacker—Boba found a third. He put Slave I between his assailant and Mub'at's web, then ploughed the ship straight into Mub'at.

The arachnid alien was terribly wounded, but refused to pay Boba, informing him that he had not set the bounty. Boba then realized that it had been set by his attacker, whom he had identified as Prince Xizor, the infamous underlord of Black Sun. Mub'at told Boba that Xizor was also the one behind the plan to break up the Guild. When the crime lord arrived, Boba captured him, only to find that Xizor had negotiated a deal with Balancesheet, a now renegade subsystem of Mub'at's that had declared its own autonomy.

Xizor did at least pay the bounty on Voss'on't. All Boba could do was limp away in his damaged ship. That was when he realized that Balancesheet had played a last trick—he had taken half the bounty to cover "expenses." For that, Boba vowed, there would be a reckoning.

Allegiance with the Empire

Not long after his war with the Guild, Fett tracked down the notorious Evazan to the planet Necropolis, where he also met Zak and Tash Arranda for the first time. After fighting off Evazan's reanimated corpses, Fett succeeded in killing the criminal at last.

One month later, Boba was hired by Aron Harcourt, an Imperial officer, to locate a holorecording of his wife, Janelle, from the wreckage of Anya Karu. Fett completed the mission, only to learn that Harcourt could only pay half of the agreed salary. Enraged, he gunned down the Imperial officer.^[13]

Some time after the Battle of Kalist VI, Fett was recruited by Lieutenant Manech to depose the Kyber Monarchy of Troska, resulting in the Battle of Troska. Boba was successful, but left King Natas Kyber alive, because of the size of the bribe he offered.^[14]

In 1 ABY, Fett decided to accept a bounty from Darth Vader for the capture of Zak and Tash Arranda and Mammon Hoole. After tracking them to Dagobah, Fett was knocked out in a fight with a monstrous dragon snake and found by cannibalistic descendants of an Old Republic survey team who called themselves "The Children". Held in a primitive cage and stripped of all his essential gear, Fett convinced Zak Arranda to free him. Once freed, Fett killed the Children in the tent and proceeded to chase down the Arrandas, leading to a brief encounter with Yoda in which Fett fell into the same dark cave Luke Skywalker would enter not much later. Before he could recapture them, they fled the planet and instead of completing the capture he was contacted by the very person who'd given him the mission in the first place; Darth Vader. He was instructed to forgo the Arranda's bounty and attend to more pressing concerns—namely, being one of many bounty hunters employed by the Empire to track down and capture Han Solo.

Solo soon became a lower priority when one of Vader's personal spies, known only as "Mole", attempted to defect to the Rebel Alliance. Fett was hired by Vader to bring in the traitor, but Fett was foiled by Skywalker, Solo and Leia Organa on the frozen world of Ota.^[15]

Not long after, Fett was hired by Rom Mohc to kill Kyle Katarn because of Katarn's intrusions into the secretive Dark Trooper Project but, despite Fett's prowess, Katarn eluded the hunter on Coruscant and went on to destroy the project.^[16]

Next, the Empire hired Fett to capture a very valuable holocron that was created by the former Senator Bail Organa that contained a list of possible locations for a new base for the Rebel Alliance if they were to ever lose their first one on Yavin 4. Boba discovered that the holocron was floating around in the asteroid field in the Alderaan system. When Fett jumped out of hyperspace in the Slave I in The Graveyard, he discovered that an Imperial fleet was engaging an Alliance fleet, under the command of General Han Solo, over the holocron. Fett quickly located the holocron and tried to pick it up, but he was fought of by Solo's special fighting unit, Renegade Squadron. With the Slave I badly damaged, he had to jump out of the system, his mission a failure.

In order to restore his reputation after the incidents, Fett destroyed the entire Imperial garrison on Vryssa in order to capture Rivo Xarran, who had hoped that his brother's forces would protect him from Fett.

Soon afterward, Fett was spotted by a spacer in Jabba's Palace who approached him in order to get work after completing several tasks set to them by other patrons in the Palace. Fett hesitated at first, but eventually informed the spacer of a bounty on the head of Uff Wogo; Fett informed the spacer that they should go to Restuss on the planet Rori to find out more information. There, the spacer was met by Kkrax who, after some persuasion, informed the spacer to head to Dantooine where they would find a smuggler who helped transport Uff to a location unknown to him. The spacer soon managed to track down the smuggler, disabling his ship in space and destroying his escorts and discovered that he had transported Uff to Yavin IV. Once the spacer had landed in the Labor Outpost on the moon of Yavin, they met with Wuioe Opca who was more than happy to inform the spacer that the last location he knew for Uff was in Nashal on Talus as well as telling the spacer that he knew Uff was a heavy drinker. The spacer then went to a local cantina and informed the bartender, Decax, that he was looking for Uff. Decax led the spacer to a back room where they were met with a bounty hunter known as Durge who informed them that he had already killed Uff, and all Uff's possessions were inside a box sitting next to him. The spacer managed to convince Durge to hand over Uff's Alliance Needler then headed back to Fett, who rewarded them with 30,000 credits and let them keep Uff's Needler.^[17]

Boba Fett.

The spacer, curious for any more jobs from Fett, started asking questions about Durge but was quickly informed to head to The Warren on Dantooine for a further bounty. Once there, the spacer met an escapee from the building who gave them a key to enter the facility itself. Upon entering the facility, the spacer headed to a computer terminal being used by the scientist Ogl'woxz. The spacer accessed information on the computer, as instructed by Fett, then escaped the facility along with Ogl'woxz who had offered them more information if they helped him escape. The duo were met by a trio of droids which the spacer took down before they escaped. As soon as they were far away from the facility, the spacer asked Ogl'woxz for the extra information and was informed that there was a box located in the Dantooine Mining Outpost which had the necessary information, and gave the spacer the access code for it. The spacer acquired this information then returned to Fett who rewarded them with their choice between a DC15 rifle and a DC15 carbine then informed them to rest well for the next assignment.^[17]

After the spacer was able to rest, Fett sent them to a hotel in Dearic on Talus to track down Durge. The spacer went to the back of the hotel and spoke to one of the Claw Bodyguards who were standing watch, but was soon attacked by the bodyguard and his accomplice. After defeating the duo, the spacer went into the back room and spoke with the bodyguard's boss, Imbrimi, who revealed that he too wanted Durge dead and informed the spacer that Durge was in an abandoned hotel at Dee'ja Peak on Naboo. The spacer soon left for the hotel and, when he got there, was attacked by some rogue B2 super battle droids before finding Durge in the basement. After a tense battle, the spacer killed this Durge, and returned to Fett who rewarded him with a KYD21 pistol. While at Jabba's Palace, Fett also informed an unknown spacer of the Death Watch Bunker on the forest moon of Endor and let them know that Jabba wanted this splinter group dealt with before they could cut into his business as they were already known to be making deals with Black Sun. When the spacer asked if he would be rewarded for heading there, Fett informed them that the experience would be reward enough.^[17]

Later on, Boba decided to take up the Empire's bounty on Renegade Squadron again, possibly due to the embarrassment he took in the Alderaan system. During an Alliance scouting mission led by Admiral Ackbar to the planet Saleucami in search for a new rebel base, Boba attacked the rebel space vessel over the planet, and captured the Mon Calamarian Admiral and his crew. He sold Ackbar to the Empire, which the Admiral was freed by Renegade Squadron over Kessel, and sold the rest of the crew to the Hutt slave cartel on Tatooine. Fett knew that Solo and Renegade Squadron would eventually track down the rebel slaves and free them, so he hid a tracking device in one of the R4 droids. When Renegade Squadron eventually rescued the slaves, they brought the spy droid back to their knew secret base on Boz Pity. Thanks to Fett, the Empire was able to launch an attack on the hidden base, although most of the Rebel forces were able to escape, including Han and his squadron.

Capture of Han Solo

Boba Fett with Darth Vader and Lando Calrissian in Cloud City.

Fett discussed using Solo to capture Skywalker on several occasions and, after one such meeting on Ord Mantell, Fett received word that bounty hunters in his own employ had managed to capture Solo over Hoth and were holding him at a remote location. By the time Fett arrived, however, Solo had escaped.

Of the hunters assembled by Vader to capture the Millennium Falcon, among them several who had so recently captured Solo for Fett himself, Boba was the only hunter to figure out how the Millennium Falcon eluded Imperial pursuit by hiding among garbage (due to observing Obi-Wan Kenobi playing a similar feint on Jango over twenty years before) and tracked the ship to Cloud City on Bespin.

In his pursuit, he followed the Falcon to Cloud City where he informed Darth Vader of their destination. In response, Vader then sent a detachment of stormtroopers to infiltrate the city. When Vader arrived, he forced the city's leader, Lando Calrissian, into a twisted agreement that left him no other choice but to betray Solo and his friends, including selling him out to Fett. After the capture of Solo and his companions, Lord Vader used Solo as a test subject for carbon freezing—which, if successful, he hoped to use on Luke Skywalker in order to transport him to Emperor Palpatine.

After finding that Solo survived the freezing process, Vader gave him to Boba Fett, who in turn, returned him to Jabba for a hefty bounty. Many bounty hunters attempted to steal Solo from Fett, including an IG-88 unit that caused Fett to stop at Gall for repairs. Dash Rendar followed him but could not defeat Fett. Boba eventually escaped. With Solo in his possession, Fett set his course for Tatooine. However, he was intercepted by IG-88s C and D in IG-2000, who were trying to steal Han Solo's carbonite block and avenge their lost "brother". Fett quickly destroyed C and deceived D, destroying his ship with a barrage of fire, the droids being unable to cope with Fett's "illogical" actions. D's ship crashed, though the droid managed to survive. Fett then continued on to Tatooine.

Skirmish on Tatooine

Boba giving Han Solo over to Jabba the Hutt.

Landing on Tatooine, Fett was confronted by a squad of stormtroopers that tried to arrest him, but he killed them all rather than be further delayed. Arriving at Jabba's Palace, Bib Fortuna directed him to enter via the side entrance, secretly guarded by a krayt dragon, with the hope Fett might die. However he defeated the dragon and ushered Fortuna in at gunpoint to present Solo to the Hutt. Jabba was so pleased that he could display the captured Solo that he paid 250,000 credits for him, rather than the original 100,000 credit bounty. This was in addition to the hefty bounty the Empire had already paid him. He further requested Fett remain at the Palace, suggesting it would be worth his while if Solo's companions came searching for him.

Shortly after this, Jabba started up his demolition games which Fett gladly entered. In the very first match of the tournament, Fett was proclaimed the Hutt's reigning champion which was a position he enjoyed for some time. Each match that Fett entered became a major gambling event, and Jabba's henchmen often frightened new spectators into betting on Fett's opponents in order to garner more money for the already rich Hutt.

Boba Fett in the employ of Jabba the Hutt.

When Princess Leia Organa, Chewbacca, Lando Calrissian, and Luke Skywalker attempted to rescue the frozen Solo from Jabba's palace, they were captured, with Jabba finding different ways to dispose of each of the erstwhile heroes. Apparently, when Leia unfroze Solo and was to be Jabba's slave girl, Jabba sent her to Fett to "entertain" the hunter. Boba, due to his moral code, declined, but did not send Leia back, as it would be an insult to the crime lord. Instead, Fett and Leia argued about the Rebellion's wrong doings and the Empire's actions. Fett swiftly curtailed the argument after getting uncharacteristically angry and fell asleep.

Fett remained on-guard, but found his stay entertaining, watching with Jabba as Luke battled the vicious rancor. When Luke killed the monster, an outraged Jabba sentenced Luke, Han, and Chewbacca to be cast into the Pit of Carkoon where the ghastly Sarlacc lived. On the path to the Sarlacc, Boba was aware of the large reward for Skywalker's capture. Unfortunately, Jabba would not take it or even allow Fett to negotiate for it. They killed his rancor; they would have to pay the price. Fett was frustrated by this but could conceive of no plan to gain the reward. Luke staged his own rescue and Fett attempted to stop him along with several of Jabba's hapless guards.

While he fired at Luke, in his obsession with capturing the Jedi, he failed to notice Solo. Solo, still semi-blind from hibernation sickness, accidentally activated Fett's manual controls on his jet pack by waving a staff wildly behind him, rocketing the hunter against the sail barge and bouncing down to the sand, rolling right into the waiting maw of the Sarlacc.

Knowledge of this incident eventually made its way into Deal-slang in the shape of the expression "boba-ize", which meant to do something unintelligent which would jeopardize or potentially ruin a deal, implying that falling into the Sarlacc was considered the result of stupidity in the eyes of the speakers of Deal-slang.

Survival

But the Sarlacc could never hold Fett, deeming him "somewhat indigestible," and regurgitated him out. Fett was found by a group of Jawas who took him to be either a droid or cyborg, never bothering to scan him, and claimed him as their own under the impression he was an unintelligent being. They took him into their sandcrawler, fitted him with a restraining bolt, and went on their way. He was later joined by a familiar face when the Jawas stole R2-D2 from a hangar bay in Mos Eisley.

Fett waking up after his first escape from the Sarlacc.

R2-D2 immediately recognized Fett, but the meeting was interrupted as Han Solo and Leia Organa attacked the sandcrawler in an attempt to get R2 back. It was at this point that Fett awoke for the first time since being freed from the Sarlacc, just in time to see Solo enter the sandcrawler in his attempt to rescue R2. Unfortunately, the sandcrawler had been damaged during Han's attempts to enter it and so was on a collision course with the Sarlacc. The Jawas were too busy to fix it, as they had just been attacked by Tusken Raiders. Solo was as surprised as R2 had been to find Fett alive once more, but somehow Fett had temporarily lost his memory and in fact helped Solo rescue R2 from the doomed sandcrawler. Though against his better judgment, Solo then tried to help Fett escape also, as he couldn't leave a helpless man to die.

Unfortunately for Fett, it was at this point that his memory came back due to Leia shouting Han's name repeatedly. Fett fired on the unarmed Solo before he managed to free him from the sandcrawler, causing Solo to jump onto the sand. The sandcrawler, with Fett still in it, crashed into the mouth of the Sarlacc, trapping Fett once more. Solo once more thought of Fett as dead.

After conversing with a fellow captive, the Choi known as Susejo, Fett discovered that this being was actually psychologically connected to the Sarlacc—and it was this advantage that he used to goad the creature into contracting around his jet pack, igniting the device and providing his means of escape. The resulting explosion, combined with the beast's acidic stomach juices, left Fett on the verge of death. As he lay dying on the surface of Tatooine, his colleague Dengar was searching for anything valuable left from the explosion, but found Boba Fett instead, and nursed him back to health.

Dengar and Fett would become good friends, the infamous Fett even serving as Dengar's best man during his wedding to Manaroo. In return for this rescue, Fett allowed Dengar to accompany him on a labyrinthine mission involving the Bounty Hunters' Guild and Prince Xizor's ultra-secret Black Sun. Fett learned of Xizor's involvement with the deaths of Owen and Beru Lars, the uncle and aunt of Luke Skywalker. His search led him to Neelah, who knew about the conspiracy. With so many potential leads, Boba eventually found out the head of the serpent was wealthy industrialist Kuat of Kuat. For the mission, Fett stole the freighter Hound's Tooth from his rival Bossk, leaving Slave I behind drifting in space. After arriving in the shipyards, Kuat wired the entire construction docks with explosives. Fett flew the Hound's Tooth into the exploding construction area, where he found Kuat inside one of the larger ships waiting for his imminent death. After a series of questions about the bombing raid on Jabba's palace, Boba made Kuat leave the ship. Fett managed to pilot the ship into the vacuum of space. In the aftermath Kuat was killed by the explosions, but Fett managed to save the shipyards from serious damage. At approximately the same time, word spread that the Rebel Alliance had defeated the Empire in the Battle of Endor, an event that would change Fett's life forever. Slave I later fell into Alliance hands and rusted in an impound lot on Grakouine. Fett would subsequently use three more ships bearing the name during his career, until he eventually recovered the original with the help of Crystalboy, a former employer.

Late Galactic Civil War (4–19 ABY)

Boba Fett surprises Solo after his second escape from the Sarlacc.

8t88 ran into Fett one of the few times he surfaced after his rescue from the Sarlacc in the Rimmer's Rest in 4 ABY and tried to hire him to capture Kyle Katarn, but Fett declined, arguing that it would be tactically unwise to take jobs against the victorious and successful Alliance.

The Galaxy thought Fett was nothing more than a half-digested morsel in the bowels of the Sarlacc, and Fett used this to his advantage. Utilizing the less recognizable Slave II, Fett only took jobs from the most subtle and discreet clients. It became even worse when Jodo Kast, a would-be bounty hunter who managed to acquire Mandalorian armor in an attempt to imitate Fett, made others believe that he was the infamous bounty hunter. Boba ambushed him using a hologram of a bounty Jodo was after and brutally finished him off by causing his jetpack to overload.

Four years passed until Han Solo discovered his nemesis was still alive. During the Clone Emperor's reign of terror, Fett took a new bounty on Solo. Along with Dengar, he surprised his target on the moon of Nar Shaddaa, but once again Solo escaped. He pursued Solo to the Deep Core world Byss. Fett was confident that Slave II would make it past the planetary defense shield but the Imperials closed off before he could make it. Slave II crashed against the shield, and Fett and Dengar went spinning off. The latter swore he would never work with him again; they won't be splitting the bounty When they encountered each other again on the moon several months later, the engagement again ended against Fett's favor; Chewbacca took off Fett's helmet and ignited his jetpack, caused Fett to slam into the roof of the enclosure they were in, knocking him out. The Wookiee kept Fett's helmet as a trophy.

Unfortunately, Fett wasn't done and waited for the Falcon to emerge from the poisonous clouds by Nal Hutta. He was prepared to finish the job, but didn't anticipate the Falcon being refitted with a lightning gun. It disabled Slave I and sent Fett spinning into the clouds.

However, Solo would never leave the back of Fett's mind.

In 10 ABY, Fett was hired by Slique Brighteyes to kill Mir Tork and Leonis Murthé, the commanders of the Imperial "Death Ship" Azgoghk. Brighteyes offered Fett the entire wealth of the last surviving Gulmarids: 100 credits. Fett scoffed at such an offer and took it as an insult. Brighteyes told Fett how his name used to inspire such fear and respect throughout the Galaxy until his defeat at the hands of a Jedi at the Pit of Carkoon. He also appealed to Fett's code of honor and justice. Giving in to his claims, Boba accepted the job. After taking down the ship on Malicar 3, Fett returned to Brighteyes on Basteel with the severed heads of his targets and received his payment.^[18]

Fett once again found himself working for the Hutts when Gorga the Hutt hired Boba to locate the pirate Bar-Kooda. Even though the standing bounty was 100,000 credits, Boba demanded double that; Gorga grudgingly accepted. On this mission, Fett enlisted the help of Wim Magwit, an illusionist who had spent four years aboard Bar-Kooda's starship, Bloodstar, performing for the pirates. When first confronted by Fett, Magwit effectively faked his own death to avoid the bounty hunter—who was not fooled. Magwit agreed to help Fett in exchange for freedom from an outstanding bounty on his own head. Using Magwit's mystifying hoop, Fett was able to bring Bar-Kooda out in the open. With the help of Wim and the pirate, Toxus Li, Boba finally subdued Bar-Kooda after firing his flamethrower into Bar-Kooda's face. Meanwhile, Magwit had fled back to the escape pod. With Bar-Kooda in tow, Fett and Magwit blasted free from Bloodstar and returned to Gorga with his prize. Shortly afterwards, Fett gave his corpse over to Gorga the Hutt and his guests to dine on.

The fate of Orko the Hutt.

During this time, Fett took on a number of assignments from Gorga. He rescued Gorga's wife, Anachro, from devious kidnappers. He swung her on a tight rope to a near-by train cart and trotted her home. After the incident, Gorga wanted his new father-in-law, Orko the Hutt, dead. Fett managed to get his money from Gorga, even though he did not kill Orko himself. Orko bribed Fett not to kill him, but to protect him. Unfortunately, he was attacked by a vengeful Ry-Kooda, Bar-Kooda's elder brother, who sought revenge on Fett and Gorga. Fett, the kidnappers, and Ry-Kooda collided on Skeebo and violence ensued. Boba managed to successfully rescue Anachro from her prison deep within an abandoned mine, but was confronted with Ry-Kooda, a larger and more ferocious—to the point of being psychotic—opponent than his brother. Ry-Kooda was beaten by Fett, who fired a wrist rocket into the ceiling of the mine, collapsing it onto Ry-Kooda. However, Ry-Kooda survived and would face Fett a second time. This time, Fett quite literally blew up Ry-Kooda, killing him and ending the threat against Gorga, Orko and himself. Fett had succeeded in killing Orko and rode off with Boz, who swore revenge on Fett. Shortly afterwards, Anachro had their baby.

In 14 ABY, Boba Fett encountered the Jedi Jaden Korr on Ord Mantell. Korr's mission was to destroy a large weapons cache hidden in the wastes of a ruined city. Fett had been hired, presumably, to transport the weapons off planet and arrived at the same time. His attempts to stop the fledgling Jedi failed and all seven stockpiles were destroyed. Boba Fett then tried to exact revenge on Korr. They battled to a draw, and, seeing no profit in his actions, Fett flew off.^[19]

Fett would meet Solo again in 19 ABY, when, after securing his financial situation by collecting a five million credit bounty on the Devaronian criminal known as "The Butcher of Montellian Serat", Solo and Fett faced each other on Jubilar, the planet where Fett first saw Solo. They had come full circle.

Ultimately, both combatants agreed to drop their long-standing feud and go their separate ways. Fett even elected to retire from the hunting business, but when he returned to Kamino to have his bad leg replaced, the Kaminoan cloner he saw—his old associate, Taun We—had other ideas. Remembering the Mandalorian attacks on Kamino during the Clone Wars, Taun We asked Fett to hunt down the last surviving Mandalorian responsible—Fenn Shysa.

Mandalore (23 ABY—)

Fett and two of his Mandalorian Protectors.

On the planet of Shogun, Fenn Shysa and Boba Fett met. The details of their encounter are unknown to this day, but Shysa met his death—at Fett's hands, but, ironically, as an act of mercy after Shysa was mortally wounded saving Fett from an unknown threat.

Boba would replace Shysa as Mandalore, ascending to the leadership of the Mandalorian Protectors and ending a 45 year career of bounty hunting. However, Fett's daughter, Ailyn Vel, would begin to pose as him in her own career, using the Mandalorian armor of Alpha-Ø2 and trading o